Also in Prague, producer price growth is expected to have slowed in March after gaining pace in recent months. The reading is likely to be elevated by higher crude oil prices and tempered by the koruna’s appreciation, Jiri Skop, an economist at Komercni Banka said.

In Budapest, Zoltan Csefalvay, Hungary’s state secretary at the economy ministry, speaks on trade and economic issues at Economy 2012, an event organized by the German-Hungarian Industrial and Business Chamber.

POLAND: Adam Opel AG, a unit of General Motors Co. (GM), plans to shift part of the production of its Opel Astra model to Poland, according to the advance release of a report Saturday in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

HUNGARY: U.S. car parts maker Johnson Controls has started manufacturing car seats at its plant in the city of Kecskemet, the company announced Friday.

HUNGARY: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban attacked the European Union for imposing political conditions on an EU-IMF loan desperately needed by Budapest, in an interview on Friday.

BULGARIA: Bulgarian police seized one million euros worth of fake banknotes and busted two illegal printing facilities, arresting nine alleged members of a counterfeiting ring, the interior ministry said Friday.

-Veronika Gulyas and Gergo Racz in Budapest contributed to this article.

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